Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

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[696] of Newberry county. Captain Kinard completed his education at the South Carolina college, and in the spring of 1862 volunteered for service in the Confederate army, and became captain of Company F, Twentieth South Carolina regiment. He commanded his company all through the first years of the war and when he was killed in the battle of Strasburg, on October 13, 1864, he was acting lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. Captain Kinard was married twice, his first wife being Miss Ruff, and upon her death he married Lavinia Rook, of Laurens county, who died March i, 1893. Captain Kinard has three children: a daughter by his first wife, who is now Mrs. E. H. Aull, of Newberry, and two sons, John M. and James P., children of his second wife. James P. is professor of English in the Winthrop normal and industrial college of Rock Hill. He is a graduate of both the Citadel military academy of Charleston and the Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, having taken the degree of Ph. D. at the latter institution. John M. Kinard was born in Newberry county, May 17, 1862, and was educated in Newberry college and the South Carolina college. In 1887 he was appointed clerk of court for Newberry county to fill an unexpired term, in 1888 was elected to the office, and in 1892 re-elected, serving ten consecutive years. Upon the organization of the Commercial bank of Newberry, in 1896, he was elected its president and has since served in that capacity. He was the youngest county clerk in the State at the time of his appointment by Gov. John P. Richardson, being only twenty-four years old. He has been commander since its organization of John M. Kinard camp, Sons of Veterans, which was named for his father. On June 5, 1895, he was married to Miss Margaret Land, of Augusta, Ga., daughter of Robert H. Land, a gallant Confederate soldier. Mr. Kinard has two children: John M. Jr. and Robert L.

Lieutenant Melvin L. Kinard, a business man of Columbia who gave over four years of service to the Confederate cause, is a native of Newberry, S. C., born in 1840. At the age of eighteen years he made his home at Columbia, where upon the secession of the State he promptly joined the Richland Rifles, which he accompanied to Charleston. He was stationed with his command